The Fordham President’s attack on the Fordham Republicans apparently inspired, or at least was in sync with, personal attacks on certain Fordham Republican members, as reported by YAF:

It is a shame that some of the club’s leadership felt compelled to quickly send out this apology and cancel the event. In fact, several members of the club’s leadership—including Emily Harman, the club’s vice president, and longtime Foundation activist and the current secretary John Mantia—did not want the club to apologize.

Additionally, while he eagerly lambasted the club for wanting to host Ann Coulter, the University’s president failed to draw attention to the hateful attacks some of the club members faced leading up to the now-cancelled event. One club member, Christina Marquis, was called a “racist” on a tumblr blog posted by a Fordham graduate, [name removed 11-17-2012 see below]. The blog has since been removed, but we have posted a screen shot.

Here’s the screen shot from YAF, in which a Fordham student activist accused a Fordham Republican student of racism:

The comments on the Fordham Facebook page have been removed, but perhaps some enterprising readers know how to retrieve them.

This story now is a major priority at Legal Insurrection and College Insurrection. This isn’t about Ann Coulter. It’s about the tyranny on college campuses.

There is more information which we expect to be able to bring forward, and we intend on holding Fordham accountable.

Update: I have requested an interview with the President of Fordham. I will keep you informed if I receive a response.

Update 11-17-2012 – The person named in the YAF post quoted above contacted me and indicated she was not involved and does not know why someone used her name, and requested her name be removed. Based on that representation I removed her name from the quote.

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Thanks, Prof., for keeping this out in the open. The left’s wholesale corruption of America’s education system is one of their successful tactics that has led to our fallen position. While I despair for our country, I applaud efforts like yours to keep us motivated.

Excellent post, Professor. Thanks for keeping this story alive. I have two kids at Fordham and although I always knew public education, universities and colleges are all liberal indoctrination centers, I was hoping that Fordham would at the very least allow for the free and open exchange of ideas. I was wrong. Apparently if the ideas don’t suit the liberal agenda, they’re not allowed.
Fr. McShane is not only a foe to Conservatives, he’s a foe to faithful Catholics.
He’s not the role model I want for my kids.

This makes much more sense once you appreciate what is called the Lumina Foundation Diploma Qualifications Profile. With Obama’s reelection and Arne Duncan having given the accreditation agencies the loss of participation in the federal student loan program for noncompliance, this political vision and whether students have desired Attributes and Dispositions and Values is coming.

Basically now you have higher ed where the heads are fighting this affective push and other places that are embracing it.

Like Yale’s New head is the inventor of the concept of Emotional Intelligence. Think about that before taking out a 2nd mortgage to go to New Haven. Or Davidson taking $45 million from the Duke Endowment to radically reshape the nature of liberal arts education.

PS Civic Engagement Centers are a bad sign.

And always read the course catalogs of even the most prestigious schools lest you pay out the nose for 4 years of Keynesian modelling with computers.

Thank you for the good work professor. These incidents happen because people believe they can get away with it. They need to be proven wrong. These people need to be called out. The liberal hold on education and suppression of ideas of speech is at least as big a threat to our freedom as the media.

Sometimes referred to as “God’s Marines”, many Jesuits today are simply Obama foot soldiers. And a few straggling, camp followers. Fordham. Georgetown (my alma mater — a dubious honor indeed — shared by Sandra Fluke and the great prevaricator Stephanie Cutter I believe.) To the Jesuits so proud of their intellect, it can also be said, the mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Apparently this is not a site I should even be on. I was browsing around and thought there could be some rational dialogue. But I see now that this site subscribes to Coulter’s brand of reporting — incite, make drama where there is none, get everyone worked up over nothing. Sheesh. This “emerging scandal” is about some idiot calling someone a racist on the internet, which was quickly removed, yet wait, we have a screenshot! What a scandal!

So you’re saying that I missed the point, and the part about, ‘It’s gettng worse, much worse.’ has nothing to do with the emerging scandal being talked about. OK. the emerging scandal is that King is invited to speak, someone who supports abortion. That is the scandal? I would think inviting King shows they are open to differing opinions, and they just think Coulter is an entertainer who shouldn’t be confused with a political analyst, and she certainly shouldn’t be paid to spout her nonsense at their university. Nothing wrong with that.

The most perplexing aspect to the near full shift of colleges of all types and sizes, religious or not, to being progressive (not just liberal) to a fault is that there is no sign of disdain or shunning from their supporters. I get it that many students who don’t agree, or are more open-minded than the nearly closed-minded academic culture, will continue to opt for their sheepskin because it serves them well only at the expense of 4 years of suffering through the horrible culture. and, of course, there is little chance they will ever be penalized by a reduction in taxpayer dollars and the myriad of channels through which those dollars arrive.

But surely many of those wealthy alums and donors to endowments are not fully on board. Yet, the endowments seem to not suffer from contributions but only from the crap economy. Are most all endowment contributors progressive? Or are they simply less concerned with the future of academia and more concerned with their legacies? It’s a real mystery.

Fordham is no longer a Catholic University any more than Georgetown and other formerly Catholic Institutions were considered Catholic. Don’t talk to me about Jesuits. They have become sophists and dissembling Progressive/Socialist/Marxists. God? What God.

Fordham must be SUED… get help from FIRE, Conservative Students of Fordham. The University Administration is trampling on your First Amendment Rights.

Sue them and compel them to “recant”… the Jesuits of old would have been proud.